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		</div><p>Hundreds of residents of a London housing estate have found their lives thrown into chaos after their tower blocks were evacuated amid safety fears linked to the Grenfell disaster.</p>
<p>From families with newborn babies to a Second World War veteran, residents of the Chalcots estate in Camden were ordered out of their homes after fire officers said they could not guarantee the safety of the buildings.</p>
<p>Four high rises on the estate are thought to be covered with a similar type of cladding as that used at Grenfell Tower, five miles to the south west, where at least 79 people died in the June 14 tragedy.</p>
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<p>A nationwide safety operation was launched after the disaster amid fears dozens of residential tower blocks could be swathed in the same material.</p>
<p>Work had been due to begin on stripping cladding from buildings on the Chalcots estate, but Camden Council ordered the &#8220;decant&#8221; of residents on Friday evening following further checks and concerns over &#8220;gas pipe insulation&#8221;.</p>
<p>In the early hours of Saturday morning many residents were either staying at two relief centres in the borough, or were being dispatched to accommodation across the capital by the council.</p>
<p>Waiting for a minibus to take her family to a hotel six miles away, Zega Ghebre, 42, said the situation was &#8220;unbelievable&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got three children, an 11-year-old, a nine-year-old boy and a one-and-a-half year-old girl, she&#8217;s a baby.</p>
<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t pack anything because we didn&#8217;t know where we are going, but hopefully we will get back,&#8221;</i> she said as she stood outside Swiss Cottage Library, one of the emergency shelters in the shadow of the blocks.</p>
<p>She added: <i>&#8220;We have been offered a hotel in Wembley now. Hopefully it won&#8217;t be long. If I&#8217;m there for weeks I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to deal with it.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Earlier 94-year-old Peter Bertram, a former RAF aircraft hand and a resident of the estate for 46 years, said he was &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the ordeal.</p>
<p>He said: <i>&#8220;It was a rush, I didn&#8217;t know anything. My neighbour told me &#8216;get this and that&#8217;. It happened so quick, I don&#8217;t have the energy for that now. It&#8217;s an experience, but it&#8217;s getting settled in again though.&#8221;</i></p>
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